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    logfs: create a pagecache page if it is not present · ddb24bba
    Prasad Joshi authored
    
    
    While writing the partial journal entries we assumed that the page
    associated with the journal would always in locatable. This incorrect
    assumption resulted in the following BUG
    
    kernel BUG at /home/benixon/WD_SMR/kernels/linux-3.3.7-logfs/fs/logfs/journal.c:569!
    EIP is at logfs_write_area+0xb6/0x109 [logfs]
    EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: ef6efea4 EDX: 00000000
    ESI: 001b9000 EDI: f009e000 EBP: c3c13f14 ESP: c3c13ef0
    DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
    Process sync (pid: 1799, ti=c3c12000 task=f07825b0 task.ti=c3c12000)
    Stack:
    01001000 c3c13f26 781b9000 00000000 f009e000 f7286000 f1f83400 f8445071
    f1f83400 c3c13f30 f8445ae9 c3c13f20 0000100a 000ee000 f009e000 00000001
    c3c13f5c f8445d17 c05eb0ee 00000000 f1f83400 ef718000 f009e25c ea9c3d80
    Call Trace:
    [<f8445071>] ? account_shadow+0x16d/0x16d [logfs]
    [<f8445ae9>] logfs_write_je+0x2a/0x44 [logfs]
    [<f8445d17>] logfs_write_anchor+0x114/0x228 [logfs]
    [<c05eb0ee>] ? empty+0x5/0x5
    [<f8444522>] logfs_sync_fs+0x1e/0x31 [logfs]
    [<c051be66>] __sync_filesystem+0x5d/0x6f
    [<c051be8d>] sync_one_sb+0x15/0x17
    [<c04ff8b0>] iterate_supers+0x59/0x9a
    [<c051be78>] ? __sync_filesystem+0x6f/0x6f
    [<c051befc>] sys_sync+0x29/0x4f
    [<c084285f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
    EIP: [<f8445127>] logfs_write_area+0xb6/0x109 [logfs] SS:ESP 0068:c3c13ef0
    ---[ end trace ef6e9ef52601a945 ]---
    
    The fix is to create the pagecache page if it is not locatable.
    
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarBenixon Dhas <Benixon.Dhas@wdc.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPrasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@gmail.com>
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